Beats Per Minute's Scores
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For 1,706 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe] | |
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Lowest review score: | If Not Now, When? |
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Positive: 1,558 out of 1706
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Mixed: 130 out of 1706
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Negative: 18 out of 1706
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Duelling forces are wonderfully rendered in the sound palette that Sampha has pulled together here, with production assistance from El Guincho on a number of tracks. The presence of myriad other talents including Yussef Dayes, Yaeji, Laura Groves, black midi’s Morgan Simpson – to name just a few – emphasises the album’s underlying theme of communality.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 19, 2023
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Celebration Rock is in perpetual motion, driven by a visceral sense of urgency that most modern guitar music is so sorely lacking.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 29, 2012
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While Skying is not as large a leap forward as Strange House to Primary Colours was, it's still the work of a band firing on all cylinders, and an exceptional offering from a group that, out of nowhere, is quickly becoming one of the most exciting young acts around.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 15, 2011
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“Movement 9”, at just two and a half minutes, puts a resplendent cap on proceedings, the LSO’s strings tying things off with forlorn grace and pomp. It’s like an echo of what’s come before, the tremors from the encounter between Sanders and Shepherd resonating out into the infinitude. It leaves us in no doubt that we have just witnessed a meeting of monolithic proportions.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 29, 2021
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- Posted Jul 14, 2022
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- Posted Jun 10, 2013
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- Posted Feb 1, 2012
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There's a simultaneous show-of-hand that somehow compliments that emotional weight rather than hinders it. It's that weight that gives these compositions durability, and considering how naked Acab leaves his samples, some staggering life. All said, it's really the bottom line here.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 31, 2011
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- Posted Jun 12, 2012
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All in all, Hopkins’ roadmap is splendidly plotted, taking the right amount of time to deliver you to your destination and showing you the detours you didn’t even know you wanted to see.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 25, 2013
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- Posted Aug 8, 2023
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The cohesion of Pain Olympics is quite the miracle. Even if there are moments that diverge into unpredictable passages, there’s always a sense that Crack Cloud know where the track is heading – it’s obvious that, despite their size, they are always operating from a single artistic vision.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 17, 2020
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This overall reduction in the reliance on guitar riffs allows for greater flexibility of sound, and as such BCNR wring out more staggering peaks of emotion from Wood’s lovelorn words.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 7, 2022
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With any luck, Wakin On A Pretty Daze will go down as a document to the workman he really is.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 12, 2013
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On Island, Pallett reaffirms their status as a special brand of artist. With their compositional flair they can inspire you to bone up on music theory, whilst simultaneously, with a flash of their writerly pen, have the ability to break, rebuild and strengthen your heart.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 27, 2020
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These are warm, lived-in songs, the sort that feel instantly classic, becoming canon without ever feeling like they’re trying all that hard to.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 17, 2022
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This is a band operating at their highest, most infectious potency, and the end result is riveting.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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It’s Noname’s most convincing album yet – as a whole, it defies any attempt to be embraced as “mainstream” or “digestible”.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 15, 2023
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The dire gloom of the early years is gone, and the garbled mutations of Some Rap Songs and Feet of Clay have grown in clarity without losing any of their labyrinthine and gothic dynamics. Without calling a masterpiece just yet: this is a very special moment, both for Thebe and his fans. I leave the rest to Two-Face and the flip of his coin.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 31, 2023
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W becomes more than just ‘another’ Boris album. Like other albums that capture the sublime – be it Kid A, Loveless, Eskimo or On Land – it conjures a sense of presence that is somewhat alien, slightly haunted, certainly physical. It toys with ideas of memories we associate with certain sounds and atmospheres, how our emotions can be formed through sensory experience and time becomes illusory.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 21, 2022
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Comparing it to where they once were, somewhere middling between post-rock and meandering industrial ambient, the sound of Factory Floor is of a band that is now confident in their own original and entirely dominant sound.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 13, 2013
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- Posted Dec 7, 2012
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Torres doesn’t really feel like a debut, let alone something remotely self-released–the songwriting ability and surprisingly fantastic and natural production allow for this journal-esque story to get its due.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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The record is 15 short vignettes about lost, unattainable, suboptimal, or just plain impossible love, and The Fields nail each and every one.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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Once again, Sternberg’s irrepressible, impossibly human spirit shines through the darkness. This is the ultimate power of I’ve Got Me: the majority of songs here focus on negative experiences, but the feeling coming out the other end of listening to it is one of uplift and renewed resolve to make something of one’s life. It’s what makes the album sound both modern and timeless.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 3, 2023
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- Posted Mar 13, 2012
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He’s fulfilled every promise made by Badlands and then some, and despite whatever depths of pain made such an eruption of shattered awesome possible, he’s managed not just one of the best albums of the year, but one of the most genuinely moving, as well.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2013
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- Posted Jan 13, 2022
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Sometimes these lyrics are a bit stifling and confusing to place in context, but once more, these songs become something more due to Turner's impeccable vocal melodies.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 5, 2011
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Despite its short length, Kindred provides as much of an experience as Untrue. And commendably, it's a different one.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 16, 2012
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